Chieko Asakawa, a Japanese doctor and inventor, is developing a new technology that will aid visually impaired individuals. Her passion for advancing technology for the visually impaired started when Asakawa had a swimming pool accident when she was 14 which caused her blindness. She is now working with other companies to improve the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help people live a normal life.
When Asakawa started working on developing artificial intelligence, she did not have any technology to assist her impairment. The hardships that she endured made her do more in improving technology for the blind.